Was it wrong for Ivanka to sit in for President Trump at the G-20? | The Tylt

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Was it wrong for Ivanka to sit in for President Trump at the G-20?

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The reaction worldwide was outrage. Historian Anne Applebaum condemned the First Daughter as “an unelected, unqualified, unprepared New York socialite” with no business sitting in for the most powerful man in the world. Women's rights organizer Amy Siskind tweeted: “This kind of thing happens all the time. In dictatorships.” And frequent Trump administration critic Rep. Maxine Waters pulled no punches:

"Here you have the president of the United States at the G20, representing us as the leader of the free world, and so he’s going to play politics and give his daughter a chance to have a place in the sun and to be seen at a very important meeting that she knows nothing about.She cannot in any way deal with those members who are there representing those countries. She doesn’t know anything about these issues.”

But Richard Painter, former White House ethics lawyer for the Bush administration, said that an unelected family member with no government or diplomatic qualifications had no business sitting at that table.